[OE-core] BB_NO_NETWORK = "1" causes fetch to fail for unnecessary u-boot parsing

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Chris Larson wrote:

> It's worth bringing up the SRCREV_POLICY variable, which lets you
> control how bitbake handles caching of srcrevs. By default, it
> figures it needs to get the mapping every time (value == clear, or
> unset), which can make sense in certain cases. But you can tell it
> to go ahead and use the values it has cached from a previous run, as
> well (value == cache). This can be useful if you know you're moving
> into an offline state and want to prepare for it above and beyond
> the -c fetchall.

  i'm not in the least embarrassed to admit i didn't even know that
variable existed.  and, yes, that pretty much solves the problem.

  i'm still creeped out by that comment of using the tag name to deal
with rebasing a public commit, though.  :-P

rday

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